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A woman employed as a Police Department administrative aid has been suspended from the force for failing to tell her commanding officer that she had been arrested three weeks ago on a charge of cheating on welfare payments. A polite spokesman said that the aide, Yvonne Price, who had been assigned to clerical duties at the 10th Precinct, was arrested on Feb. 18 and accused of collecting $3,316 in welfare payments in the last year while employed by the department. She became a police administrative aide in August 1973.

Ex‐Policeman Gets 5 Years in Tax Case

A retired police lieutenant, convicted in January on charges of income‐tax evasion totaling more than $100,000, was sentenced to five years and a fine of $30,000. The former lieutenant, Pasquale Intrieri, had testified that he‐received money for two homes costing more than $100,000 and a $15,000 Mercedes Benz from “little tin boxes” left by relatives who had died. He plans to appeal the verdict.

Port Commissioner Sworn In

Louis F. Mastriani, a financial and management specialist; was sworn in by Mayor Beanie as Commissioner Ports and Terminals at an annual salary of $38,771. Mr. Mastriani succeeds Edgar C. Fabber, who resigned this year to return to private industry.

10 Flee Nursing‐Home Fire

Ten residents of the Crestview Home for the Aged in Greenwich, Conn., were removed without injury Thursday night when a fire destroyed the building. Four were housed overnight at Greenwich Hospital, while the six others were taken in by the home's owner, Francis Roche, who lives next door. Fire Chief John Titsworth said the three‐story 112‐year‐old Victorian frame structure was suitable now only for demolition.

Yonkers Hires Fiscal Advisers

Yonkers, facing its fifth default deadline in three months and no longer able to rely on state financial help, has followed the advice of Albany officials and is seeking professional assistance. The City Manager, Vincent Castaldo, said he had hired Smith, Barney, Harris, Upham & Company, financial advisers, and Hawkins, Delafield & Woods, bond counselors, to help raise $16.1 million by March 19 and to arrange for long‐term financing for the city. Yonkers, meanwhile, has been meeting current payrolls and expenses by asking residents and companies prepay taxes normally due in April.

5 L.I. Companies Get Job Grants

Governor Carey announced that five Long Island concerns would receive loans totaling $341,000 from the New York Job Development Authority to use in industrial growth projects. The concerns and the amounts they will receive are Nucraloy Corporation, Oceanside, $152,800; North Shore Graphic Arts, Greenvale, $39,000; Suffolk Apparel Company, Wyandanch, $47,200; Aul Instruments, Flushing, 845,300, and Eagle Contrbl Corporation & Burr Controls, East Northport, $56,700. The loans are expected to create 84 jobs within a year.